GI Exam Flashcards
visceral pain
hollow organs
-distension or stretching
comes and goes - crescendo decrescendo
not well localized
parietal pain
inflammation of peritoneum
steady aching pain well localized
right shoulder
gallbladder
left shoulder
spleen
back
pancreas/aorta
renal colic
renal system pain
flank pain
epigastric pain
MI**
peptic ulcer
acute cholecystitis
perforated esophagus
LLQ pain
sigmoid diverticulitis
melena
black tarry stool
above ligament of treitz
hematochezia
blood bright red
at level of colon or lower
cathartic
blood in stool
-makes you go to bathroom
blood outside stool
suggests anus
DDx for GI bleeding
congenital - meckel immune - UC, crohns, PUD trauma - mallory weiss neoplastic - zollinger-ellison infectious metabolic - NSAID
red currant jelly stool
intussusception
jaundice
staining with bilirubin
pruritis - itching
dark colored urine
acholic feces
acholic feces
malodorous, gray to light colored stool
unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia
hemolysis RBC defect ineffective erythropoiesis deficient hepatic uptake deficient hepatic conjugation
conjugated hyperbilirubinemia
impaired bilirubin excretion
serum alk phos elevated out of proportion to transaminases
intrahepatic - liver disease, drugs, sepsis, biliary cirrhosis
extrahepatic - gallstones, sclerosing cholangitis, parasites, pancreatic cancer, pancreatitis
painless jaundice
pancreatic cancer unless proven otherwise
ascites
accumulation of peritoneal fluid
most common - cirrhosis of liver - portal HTN
also lymph obstruction, hypoalbuminemia, peritonitis
bulging flank, tympany of abdomen, fluid wave, shift dullness
four signs of free fluid in abdomen
DDx for ascites
cirrhosis** malignancy CHF tuberculosis peritonitis dialysis nephrotic syndrome
percussion of fluid in abdomen
dullness
normal abdomen - tympany
exposure of abdomen
xiphoid to pubis